Venezuela has been narrated to the point of exhaustion through concepts such as oil, crisis, violence, polarization, and migration.

Each of these words contains a story, but none can contain an entire country.

Perhaps, in the attempt to speak about Venezuela from afar, there is a certain chimera: to restore a sense of proximity that distance has made impossible. An affective and political undertaking that nevertheless risks transforming what it seeks to recover into an image of itself that is too fixed.

From my position as a Venezuelan and as a gallery director in Barcelona, this tension inevitably informs the way I think about an exhibition such as this one. How can we give visibility to artistic practices emerging from a geography marked by a particularly complex political history without turning that complexity into an exotic premise? How can we speak about a territory without reducing it to the circumstances that have shaped its present? And, perhaps more importantly, how can we…